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STAYING
TRUE
NEVER FAKE THE FUNK.
BY ASIA HORNE
I
bet you’re wondering where
we been huh? Well, I got a
story to tell. I was very close to
calling it quits.
This year has been the craziest
rollercoaster ride of my life. I built
up the nerve to put in my two
weeks notice at my first “big girl”
job and took a huge leap of faith
as an entrepreneur. My self-taught
talent of graphic design was going
to pay off big and Empire Life was
going to finally grow its wings... or so
I thought.
down and people started to back
out of their promises which left me
between a rock and a hard place...
and a five day notice slid under my
door.. Talk about feeling defeated.
The most ironic thing of it all is that
the driving force behind me making
The first month was effortless. I
the first decision was no longer
announced my full-time status as
something I was passionate about.
a freelance digital creative and
You read that right, I fell out of love
projects practically
with Empire Life, this
jumped in my lap. I
very magazine you
was able to pay my
IF YOU
are reading.
expenses with ease
DON’T
LIKE
The thing is, Empire
and fully enjoy a preSOMETHING, Life started to become
planned trip to Los
I wasn’t
Angeles where I had
CHANGE IT. something
which
was
incredibly
an epiphany that I was
weird to me because
meant to be there. LA
I’M the creator. I created something
was the city that I knew could take
that grew into something that didn’t
me to the next level. Whenever I
represent who I was now and in turn,
was asked “what’s your end goal
that made me lose passion for the
with all this”, I’d answer “to build my
entire thing.
own media empire.” What better
place to do that than Hollywood! It
I lost motivation to work on the
was a no brainer.
progress of this platform that
had so much potential and I
That was the only silver lining I had
was drained about it. Until I had
for a while. Projects began to slow
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